party newspaper, "the people's daily" ran a 55-page photo spread on its website in tribute to kim jong-un citing a report by the onion. apparently it was lost on them that the onion is satire. the chinese paper went on to call kim a devastatingly handsome round-faced heart throb. as our politicians wrangle over tax increases, outrage in france over a proposed 160% tax hike on beer. brewers and customers say it's not fair because the tax is only being leveed on beer, not on other alcoholic drinks like wine. the government says this is a public health issue because more people abuse beer than abuse wine. opponents say it's just that wine makers have more political clout. >>> and cyber sales soaring. cnbc'smandy drury is here with what's moving your money. final numbers aren't in yet, but the early numbers show a pretty great cyber monday, mandy. >> many sites showed really big sales despite the busy online shopping sales leading up to cyber monday. here are the numbers we've got so far. online sales at the top retailers were up by just over 28% from the same time last year. and the other go